{"id":1009072,"date":"2026-05-22T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009072"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:58:52","slug":"record-fibre-demand-and-cost-savings-help-bt-shore-up-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/record-fibre-demand-and-cost-savings-help-bt-shore-up-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Record fibre demand and cost savings help BT shore up earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT, Britain&#8217;s biggest broadband and mobile company, said it added 2.2 million fibre connections in the year to end-March, helping it offset pricing pressure and weakness in its international unit to deliver \u200cflat core earnings. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2060company on \u2060Thursday met market expectations with a 3% drop in revenue to \u00a319.7 billion ($26.46 billion) and flat core earnings of \u00a38.2 billion, with the latter also boosted by cost savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT, Britain&#8217;s biggest broadband and mobile company, said it added 2.2 million fibre connections in the year to end-March, helping it offset pricing pressure and weakness in its international unit to deliver \u200cflat core earnings. The \u2060company on \u2060Thursday met market expectations with a 3% drop in revenue to \u00a319.7 billion ($26.46 billion) and flat core earnings of \u00a38.2 billion, with the latter also boosted by cost savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009092,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009072\/revisions\/1009092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}